Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[Kev]

He WAS completely grey and now has red shoulders and head so....

He's totally busted then.

btw agree with others on sexing your birds.

 

[stockedkitchen]

I got him because he was completely grey. I was disapointted that he was going red until recently. I started call him Dorian Grey, firgured I could call him Dori Grey if he layed an egg. I have been wanted to get a true Araucanas. Not just EE like I have. Does anyone think if I cross him with my EE's I might get a rumpless EENN that lay blue. o.o. Or if he's small enough to cross with the silkies and get a blue egg laying silkie? o.o

 

[Kev]

It would depend on if he's a true genetic rumpless or not. Could be deformity due to damage, so not genetic.

He has a single comb, so chances are he did not get the blue egg gene necessary for colored eggs.. in Araucanas, Amers and EE the blue egg gene is tightly linked to pea comb and that's a reliable way to figure out the carriers- although it's not that 'strong' in EE as they are very mixed so there are some pea combed EE that don't have the linkage.

If he IS genetic rumpless, you could make araucana looking birds by breeding him with green or blue laying EE. They would not pass for araucanas as they still would lack tufts and it's extremely hard to get back to blue eggs after crossing with tinted/brown or green egg layers. But clean headed, rumpless EE could be cool?

 

[SlipsWife]

It would depend on if he's a true genetic rumpless or not. Could be deformity due to damage, so not genetic.

He has a single comb, so chances are he did not get the blue egg gene necessary for colored eggs.. in Araucanas, Amers and EE the blue egg gene is tightly linked to pea comb and that's a reliable way to figure out the carriers- although it's not that 'strong' in EE as they are very mixed so there are some pea combed EE that don't have the linkage.

If he IS genetic rumpless, you could make araucana looking birds by breeding him with green or blue laying EE. They would not pass for araucanas as they still would lack tufts and it's extremely hard to get back to blue eggs after crossing with tinted/brown or green egg layers. But clean headed, rumpless EE could be cool?

We are getting a few cream legbar pullets and a week old cockerel this coming weekend. I know we have awhile until everyone matures but...

Would we be able to cross a NN with a CL and have blue or green eggs? If I had a NN blue/green egg layer I might sell our house and buy more land so I could have an infinite number of them running around. My 'dream' chicken would be a blue or splash Showgirl that lays blue or green eggs.

 

[Kev]

We are getting a few cream legbar pullets and a week old cockerel this coming weekend. I know we have awhile until everyone matures but...

Would we be able to cross a NN with a CL and have blue or green eggs? If I had a NN blue/green egg layer I might sell our house and buy more land so I could have an infinite number of them running around. My 'dream' chicken would be a blue or splash Showgirl that lays blue or green eggs.

start land hunting. all your wishes are very easily possible- the NN x CL is practically guaranteed already. The only difference, legbars don't have their blue egg linked to pea, so once they are mixed with single combeds of other breeds you won't be able to tell which pullets will lay colored eggs or not until they start laying. True Easter surprises!

 

[Kassaundra]

Okay let me apologize in advance I am about to post chick pics.

These are the 15 that hatched.


Group shot waiting for their individual pics.
































Some are hunkered down and so don't look like NN but they all are.

 

[1TurkenLover]

Nice babies

 

[SlipsWife]

Okay let me apologize in advance I am about to post chick pics.

These are the 15 that hatched.


Group shot waiting for their individual pics.
Some are hunkered down and so don't look like NN but they all are.

You know, you could stop me from dealing with incubating if you just sent me all of the cute fluffy butts you hatch, just sayin'

Sooooooooo cute!!!!

 

[SlipsWife]

start land hunting. all your wishes are very easily possible- the NN x CL is practically guaranteed already. The only difference, legbars don't have their blue egg linked to pea, so once they are mixed with single combeds of other breeds you won't be able to tell which pullets will lay colored eggs or not until they start laying. True Easter surprises!

My thinking on using a CL is because my EE cockerels are all from the hatchery so I don't know what color eggs they've hatched from. If I read and remember correctly, a chick hatched from a brown egg won't give you blue/green again, that they lose gene? Is that right? Well, maybe not lose the gene, but that's pretty much how I remembered it. So basically if I have an EE that lays brown, I wouldn't want to hatch her eggs because her offspring would lay brown. So if I have an EE cockerel but I don't know what colored of egg he hatched from because he's from the hatchery, I chance throwing a brown gene in the mix, even if it has a pea comb because the pea comb is a good indicator but not 100%.

The main reason I'm getting a CL cockerel is for the blue gene but I didn't think of the comb indicator loss using a CL!

 

[Kassaundra]

My thinking on using a CL is because my EE cockerels are all from the hatchery so I don't know what color eggs they've hatched from. If I read and remember correctly, a chick hatched from a brown egg won't give you blue/green again, that they lose gene? Is that right? Well, maybe not lose the gene, but that's pretty much how I remembered it. So basically if I have an EE that lays brown, I wouldn't want to hatch her eggs because her offspring would lay brown. So if I have an EE cockerel but I don't know what colored of egg he hatched from because he's from the hatchery, I chance throwing a brown gene in the mix, even if it has a pea comb because the pea comb is a good indicator but not 100%.

The main reason I'm getting a CL cockerel is for the blue gene but I didn't think of the comb indicator loss using a CL!

Which hatchery? I got my original EE from Meyers and all laid colored eggs (mostly green but a few blueish)